[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7119]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          SHOOTOUT IN ARIZONA

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Deputy Louie Puroll was in his patrol 
vehicle last Friday afternoon in Pinal County, Arizona, patrolling the 
border, but he was 75 miles north of the border. There is not much 
Border Patrol activity there because it is so far north, but there is 
plenty of drug smuggling going on.
  Deputy Puroll spotted backpacks full of drugs and suspicious 
activity. He radioed for backup and began to track the group. A drug 
cartel paramilitary squad opened fire on him with automatic weapons. He 
was shot in the side by an AK-47. This is the first time one of these 
squads has shot a lawman that far north, just 50 miles from Phoenix. 
The shootout lasted 10 minutes. The wounded deputy called for help on 
his cell phone, and it took an hour to find him.
  The drug cartels, Mr. Speaker, are now shooting their way across our 
border. Until we put armed National Guard troops at the border to stop 
these violent narco-terrorists, we risk the lives of our lawmen that 
are outmanned, outgunned and outfinanced.
  And that's just the way it is.

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